Belarussian leader Alexander Lukashenko has told Russian news agency Ria that he will ask Russian President Vladimir Putin to install nuclear weapons in Belarus if NATO develops similar systems in the neighboring country.
“I will suggest to Putin (in this case) to return the nuclear weapons to Belarus,” Lukashenko said. adding that “we are ready for such a thing on the territory of Belarus”
After the collapse of the Soviet Union on the territory of Belarus there were dozens of shipments of strategic Topol intercontinental ballistic missiles and more than a thousand tactical nuclear warheads. Minsk had agreed to withdraw these weapons after the signing of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).
180 degree turn for Crimea
Referring to the issue of Crimea, Lukashenko, turning his public stance, as Belarus had not recognized Crimea as Russian after its annexation by Moscow, said that he intends to visit Crimea and that he has agreed on this issue with President Putin, declaring that the Crimean peninsula is legally Russian territory.
“My visit to Crimea, which I have an absolute right to do, regardless of who is a protectorate, under whose leadership it is. “This is my Crimea,” Lukashenko said, adding that “we have agreed specifically with Putin that we will go to Crimea.”
In the same interview, Lukashenko said that he would try to solve the problem of immigrants by the end of 2021, referring to the conversation he had with Chancellor Merkel on this issue: “I told her immediately… I will try to solve this problem before New Year, because we do not need it “.
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